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IRS supervisor in DC scrutinized tea party cases [W:127]

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action.

Holly Paz, who until recently was a top deputy in the division that handles applications for tax-exempt status, told congressional investigators she reviewed 20 to 30 applications. Her assertion contradicts initial claims by the agency that a small group of agents working in an office in Cincinnati were solely responsible for mishandling the applications

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Say it ain't so!!

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Re: IRS supervisor in DC scrutinized tea party cases

what was it liar Cummings said again?
"Washington's involvement in the IRS scandal were "unsubstantiated,"

What was it that Issa said?
"Washington was involved"

by the way Holly Paz is a registered Democrat who donated $4,000 to the Obama campaign in 2008

No way. I'm sea-leveled. Beached. She worked for Lois Lerner and she was involved? Just because she says she was doesn't mean it's true. See, she thought Tea Party meant liberal. A common mistake any government worker who donated $4,000 to Obama would make.

Re: IRS supervisor in DC scrutinized tea party cases

what was it liar Cummings said again?
"Washington's involvement in the IRS scandal were "unsubstantiated,"

What was it that Issa said?
"Washington was involved"

by the way Holly Paz is a registered Democrat who donated $4,000 to the Obama campaign in 2008

No way. I'm sea-leveled. Beached. She worked for Lois Lerner and she was involved? Just because she says she was doesn't mean it's true. See, she thought Tea Party meant liberal. A common mistake any government worker who donated $4,000 to Obama would make.

Re: IRS supervisor in DC scrutinized tea party cases

Paz, however, provided no evidence that senior IRS officials ordered agents to target conservative groups or that anyone in the Obama administration outside the IRS was involved.

Instead, Paz described an agency in which IRS supervisors in Washington worked closely with agents in the field but didn't fully understand what those agents were doing. Paz said agents in Cincinnati openly talked about handling "tea party" cases, but she thought the term was merely shorthand for all applications from groups that were politically active — conservative and liberal.

Paz said dozens of tea party applications sat untouched for more than a year while field agents waited for guidance from Washington on how to handle them. At the time, she said, Washington officials thought the agents in Cincinnati were processing the cases.

Has anybody even read the article? What did I miss that was so damning?

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Has anybody even read the article? What did I miss that was so damning?

The article proves that it wasn't just a handful of rogue agents in a local IRS office that deployed this offensive against Conservative NFP's.

Originally Posted by americanwoman

So there is absolutely no evidence this woman, whom you called a slut, did this but you are ready to take someone's word as evidence. Guess you don't think witch hunts have to end when it's going after the certain people.

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Originally Posted by Middleground

Has anybody even read the article? What did I miss that was so damning?

Why, nothing at all if you support the authoritarian targeting of political opponents in an election cycle, then lying about your involvement when found out...Heh, heh....Look who I am telling, of course that is the order of the day for progressives....ACORN, Soros, S.O.S. project, the dead peoples vote, Ballots in trunks....etc....Now, revealed bringing the power, and force of the federal government to bear against your political opponents, progressives never fail to make the jaw drop as to how far they go, or how dishonest they will be about what they do.

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